On Thursday, 4. October 2012. 16.38.09 Martin Airs wrote:
On Thursday 04 Oct 2012 16:55:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
So I have a very trivial problem: my music collection is now on a http server. How do I get Amarok to make a collection database out of that, short of downloading all that to a local disk? The very point of having all the files on a http server is that I *don't* want to have them on a local disk. So I want Amarok to create a database of the files present on the server, from which I can later create playlists. The music would stay on the server, and Amarok would read the files over http and play them one by one.
Have a look at Ampache (http://ampache.org)
Yes, I have looked at both ampache and icecast (suggested by Mark Haney), and some other streaming servers.
But the streaming server seems to be an overkill for my purposes. All I want is to put a "http://www.server.com/somefile.mp3" into the Amarok collection (local database, remote files), so that I can play it.
A streaming server would require some work in installation/setup on the server, which I am not willing to do. I would prefer the client-only solution, if there is one, since I expect it to be much simpler (both conceptually and in practice).
Thanks for the thoughts, though! :-)
Best, :-) Marko